Demands jail after ‘reckless’ misfire

A conflict between the “Kurdish fox” and the motorcycle gang Bandidos is believed to have led to several acts of violence in Stockholm at the beginning of last year. On two occasions, people who had nothing to do with the matter were killed.

The prosecutor is now demanding that a teenage boy be sentenced to 14 years in prison for one of the murders and additional murder plans.

Late on Friday evening, March 4, 2022, a man in his 30s is shot dead when he tries to repark his car outside a restaurant in an industrial area in Haninge. The car is fired with at least 20 shots and the man is hit by at least half of them where he is sitting in the driver’s seat.

The shots go into the neck and back, among other things, and the man dies on the spot.

The victim had come to Sweden from Syria in 2015. Prosecutor Anna Hankkio describes him in her closing statement about the murder in Södertörn district court on Tuesday as a “hard-working person who wanted to do right for himself”, unpunished and without connections to gang crime.

– On the contrary, he seemed to have an orderly life with family and friends who loved him, she says.

A 19-year-old man is charged with killing the man together with at least one unknown person. The shots are believed to have been fired from a car and a third unknown person is said to have acted as a driver.

“Obvious misfire”

According to the prosecutor, it is clear that it was a so-called mistaken shooting and that the victim was not who the killers thought. The car was parked outside Bandido’s premises in Haninge and according to Hankkio they were looking for people from there.

– It is a person with no connection to the conflict who is murdered in a completely reckless manner.

The background is said to be a conflict between the Bandidos on the one hand and criminal networks in Jordbro and Bro on the other, as well as the wanted man known as the “Kurdish fox”, who leads the criminal network Foxtrot. The conflict is believed to have flared up after a seizure of a drug shipment.

The killing on March 4 was neither the first nor the last act of the conflict. A week earlier, there was an attempted murder at the same location, and roughly two weeks after the murder, according to the prosecutor, murders were attempted on two more occasions at the same location.

The 19-year-old is also suspected of participation in those plans. So do three other men who are accused in the case. The murder plans were interrupted in the first case due to the presence of the police and in the latter case after a direct intervention by the police.

The shooting death at a gym in Stockholm on March 28, when a man who tried to stop the killer was killed, can also be linked to the same conflict. There, too, the actual target was a man from the Bandidos, says prosecutor Anna Hankkio.

Not youth care

A 17-year-old has previously been sentenced in the district court for the gym murder to closed youth care. However, the teenager who is suspected of the murder in Haninge should not receive closed youth care, even though he was only 17 at the time, says Hankkio.

– This is the most serious type of crime we have in our country and if this does not lead to the maximum penalty for young people, that is 14 years in prison, it is difficult to see what could do that, she says.

For one of the murder plans, the “Kurdish fox” is also detained in his absence, on probable grounds suspected of preparation for murder. The evidence against him mainly consists of chats which, according to the prosecutor, show how he instructs others to murder people in the Bandidos.

Evidence from various phones also forms a large part of the evidence against the others in the prosecution, including the 19-year-old. He can also be linked to the murder through DNA on, among other things, gloves and casings. The man has admitted that he handled the murder weapons, but not at the time of the murder.

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